Author: Staff Reporter

Streaming music service Deezer – a competitor to Spotify, Apple Music and Google Music – said on Monday that it is adding local radio stations to its platform.

The new iPad Pro models have been launched in South Africa, and thanks to a weak rand, coupled with Apple’s higher selling prices, they’re anything but cheap.

Standard Bank and AVI have announced they will list on new South African stock exchange A2X.

Telkom said on Thursday that it has reached a partnership with Netflix to offer the global streaming giant’s service on its LIT set-top box.

Telkom subsidiary BCX has blamed looming job cuts at the ICT services company on the weak economy, saying there’s little sign of a short-term pick-up in demand from businesses.

Mobile virtual network operators that piggyback on Cell C’s network will also get to take advantage of the cellular provider’s 4G/LTE roaming agreement with MTN South Africa.

Cell C has appointed Zafar Mahomed as its new chief financial officer. This follows the short tenure of the previous CFO, Tyrone Soondarjee, who resigned in May after less than a year in the role.

Private equity investment firm Ethos has launched a new fund, targeting R1-billion, that will invest in artificial intelligence companies in South Africa.

The GSMA on Tuesday warned that governments and regulators must move quickly to free up the right radio frequency spectrum bands to ensure the speedy roll-out of 5G services.

Blue Label Telecoms, taking advantage of its low share price, has bought back almost 3.5% of the company’s issued share capital, it said on Monday.